On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:28 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
Jun 16 08:22:07 eeebox dovecot: pop3(cmcmanis): Error: user cmcmanis: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location
setting
failed: mbox: mbox root directory can't be a file: /home/cmcmanis/Mailbox ( http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox) ..
Now it strikes me that this message indicates that Dovecot is confused
about
how mail is delivered on my system and is looking for a Maildir implementation when I"m using single files.
No, it's looking for a directory containing mbox files. See the wiki URL and "Only /var/mail/ mboxes" section in it.
Thanks Timo, I've read that wiki page a few times, and adding INDEX=MEMORY hasn't changed things. (random 2.0 bug report, unless you set info_log_path in conf.d/10-logging the additonal information doesn't come out)
I suspect its that I'm trying to do everything in a single file, from qmail delivering mail there, to dovecot pulling out messages for users. (I did that to manage storage controls). Reading the qmail/LDA page it seems like dovecot really wants me to have qmail deliver into an 'inbox' file and then to transfer email from that file into the local directory 'mbox' file while it works.
--Chuck